The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions. It is a
LaTeX port, and extension, of the plain TeX EDMAC, TABMAC and EDSTANZA
macros. The ledpar package is an extension of ledmac enabling parallel
typesetting in columns or on facing pages. The ledarab package is
an extension enabling the use of arabic script, as implemented by ArabTeX, 
in critical editions (temporarily afoot.sty is provided to support regular 
footnotes in ArabTeX).

    Bug reports and suggestions may be welcome.

Changes (2008/05/28)
o I, Peter Wilson, can no longer support ledmac, ledpar or ledarab.
  Please do not contact me about them unless you are offering to take 
  over the maintenance of the packages. If you have any questions, 
  ask on the comp.text.tex newsgroup.

Changes in ledpar.sty v0.3b (2005/04/08)
o Improved page balancing for parallel pages

Changes in ledpar.sty v0.3a (2005/03/30)
o Small fix for line number margins

Changes in ledarab.sty v0.1 (2005/03/24)
o First public release

Changes in ledpar version 0.3 (2005/03/24)
o Fixed some spacing problems
o Reorganized to simplify the ledarab package

Changes in ledpatch.sty v0.3 (2005/03/24)
o All patches incorporated into ledmac v0.7

Changes in ledmac version 0.7 (2005/03/24)
o Reorganized to simplify the ledpar and ledarab packages

Changes in ledpar version 0.2 (2005/01/01)
o Fixed problems with babel

Changes in ledpatch.sty v0.2 (2005/01/11)
o Fixed some spacing problems

Changes in ledpar version 0.1 (2004/12/10)
o First public release

Changes in ledmac version 0.6 (2004/12/10)
o Fixed infinite loop problems when processing complex paragraphs
o Prepared for the ledpar package

Changes in version 0.51 (2004/04/10)
o Resurrected line numbers in right hand margin
o Added a third kind of sidenote

Changes in version 0.5 (2004/04/04)
o Added sidenotes (as a replacement for \marginpar in numbered text)
o All footnotes can be used in numbered text, not just critical ones
o If used with the memoir class, multiple regular and critical indexes

Changes in version 0.4 (2004/02/29)
o Added draft/final options
o All footnotes can be used in minipages
o New minipage-like environments that can include page breaks and put 
  footnotes at their end, even if this is in the middle of the page
o Revised "ledeasy" example

Changes in version 0.3 (2004/02/14)
o Added edstanza macros for verse
o Line numbering can use roman, etc., numbers as well as arabic
o Additional example

Changes in version 0.22 (2003/11/09)
o More control over paragraphed footnotes
o More control over page and line number printing in footnotes
o Additional example
o Eliminated clash with the amsfonts package

Changes in version 0.21 (2003/09/13)
o Minor bug fixes
o Compatible with the memoir class (mempatch v1.8)

Changes in version 0.2 (2003/08/16)
o Added indexing by page and line number
o Added simple tabular- and array-style environments

Changes in version 0.1 (2003/03/25)
o First public experimental release.

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  Author: Peter Wilson (Herries Press) herries dot press at earthlink dot net
  Copyright 2003 --- 2005 Peter R. Wilson
 
  This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
  conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either
  version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any 
  later version.
  The latest version of the license is in
     http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
  and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of
  LaTeX version 2003/06/01 or later.
 
  This work has the LPPL maintenance status "unmaintained".
 
  This work consists of the files:
   README (this file), 
   ledmac.dtx, 
   ledmac.ins,
   ledmac.pdf   (200+ pages)
   ledeasy.eps, 
   ledfeat.eps, 
   ledioc.eps, 
   ledarden.eps, 
   ledmixed.eps,
   ledekker.eps, 
   ledbraonain.eps,
   ledpar.dtx,
   ledpar.ins,
   ledpar.pdf   (100+ pages)
   djd17novL.eps,
   djd17novR.eps,
   djdpoems1.eps,
   djdpoems2.eps,
   djdpoems3.eps,
   djdpoems4.eps,
   villon.eps,
   ledarab.dtx,
   ledarab.ins,
   ledarab.pdf (20- pages)
   egarab.eps
   egarabpar.eps
   ledpatch.sty
   ledparpatch.sty
   ledarabpatch.sty
and the derived files 
   ledmac.sty, 
   ledeasy.tex, 
   ledfeat.tex, 
   ledioc.tex, 
   ledarden.tex,
   ledmixed.tex,
   ledekker.tex, 
   ledbraonain.tex,
   ledpar.sty,
   djd17nov.tex,
   djdpoems.tex, 
   villon.tex,
   ledarab.sty
   egarab.tex
   egarabpar.tex
   afoot.sty

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    The distribution consists of the following files:
README (this file)
ledmac.dtx
ledmac.ins
ledmac.pdf
ledeasy.eps
ledfeat.eps
ledioc.eps
ledarden.eps
ledmixed.eps
ledekker.eps
ledbraonain.eps
ledpar.dtx
ledpar.ins
ledpar.pdf
djd17novL.eps
djd17novR.eps
djdpoems1.eps
djdpoems2.eps
djdpoems3.eps
djdpoems4.eps
villon.eps
ledarab.dtx
ledarab.ins
ledarab.pdf
egarab.eps
egarabpar.eps
(possibly ledpatch.sty)
(possibly ledparpatch.sty)
(possibly ledarabpatch.sty)


    To install the ledmac package:
o run: latex ledmac.ins (which will generate ledmac.sty)
o Move ledmac.sty (and ledpatch.sty if it exists) to a location where 
  LaTeX will find it (for more information on this see the FAQ).

    To generate a second copy of the manual (which is already supplied as a PDF file):
o run: latex ledmac.dtx
o (for an index run: makeindex -s gind.ist ledmac)
o run: latex ledmac.dtx
o Print ledmac.dvi for a hardcopy of the package manual 

    The *.eps files are example pages processed with the ledmac package.
They are included as figures in ledmac.dtx, which also contains the
source code for them.

    Installation of the other packages (via ledpar.ins and ledarab.ins)
is similar.
 
2008/05/28
Peter Wilson
herries dot press at earthlink dot net